In Chicago it is said, it is rumored, it is said that The Bear, the series that swept both the last edition of the Emmy Awards and the Golden Globes, is filming more episodes than it should have. The series, which had confirmed the production of a third season, could be taking advantage of these weeks to also film a fourth season not yet announced.
The FX channel, which is owned by Disney, reported in November the renewal of Christopher Storer’s creation for a third season, which the American media later discovered would begin filming in the first quarter of 2024. The order for more episodes, However, in theory it was limited to the 10 episodes that usually make up the seasons of The Bear.
But, according to media such as Deadline, in the city of Chicago where it is filmed and where the production is set, there are plans to film the third and fourth seasons together. It is a common practice to facilitate the logistics of filming and save costs, instead of having to paralyze production and start it later with the resulting costs and the complexity of balancing the talent’s agendas.
The calendars of Jeremy Allen White and Ayo Edebiri, highly sought after in Hollywood, would be the main reason why Storer and Joanna Calo, who acts as showrunner, would have accelerated the scriptwriting process.
And does this mean that Carmen, the character played by Jeremy Allen White, could be planning her farewell to television? No, the information indicates that the fifth season is still a possibility in the future and that, for the moment, the fourth has not been conceived as the last.
The Bear premiered in June 2022 accompanied by critical acclaim: they were in love with the culinary sense of Storer’s proposal and the ability of the writer and director to convey the tension in the kitchen of a sandwich restaurant. It was the establishment that Carmen inherited after the death of her brother.
Between anxiety attacks and a poorly processed grief, he had to change the toxic and conformist dynamics of the workers with the help of a new hire, Sydney (Edebiri), an aspiring chef who wanted to learn the trade in a seedy restaurant in the middle of the night. Carmen’s reputation: before returning to Chicago she was among the culinary elite of New York.
The first season focused on Carmen’s existential crisis and the way affinities were forged and relationships were redefined in the kitchen. It won 10 Emmy Awards, including best comedy, direction and screenplay for Christopher Storer, actor for Jeremy Allen White, supporting for Ayo Adebiri and supporting for Ebon Moss-Bachrach. It also won the Screen Actors Guild SAG Award for White and the Writers Guild WGA Award for Best Comedy.
The second season, broadcast in the summer of 2023, made a change of situation. They were no longer in a seedy restaurant but Carmen was renovating the place to open a haute cuisine establishment, for which the former workers had to train if they wanted to be up to the task.
While waiting for the Emmy Awards in September, he already has the Golden Globe for best comedy, actor for White and actress for Edebiri, the SAG for best comedy ensemble and two other individual awards for Edebiri and White, and the DGA of the directors’ union for the best shot comedy episode.
